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Extra resources for A Critical Theory of Creativity: Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design

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2) which Bloch said was painted ‘exactly as the poor folk always dreamed it would be. ) by other people. Typically, these are hyphenated (often multi-hyphenated) and translatable only with difficulty from the German. One of the most important is Vor-Schein (anticipatory illumination). Here, literature, art and popular culture contained the shape of things to come, which helped light the way towards Utopia. 75 As Bloch put it, ‘the tendency and latency of that which has not yet become ... ’76 Tendency and latency were therefore key concepts, as were nochnicht-bewusst (the not-yet-conscious) and the noch-nicht geworden (the not-yet-become).

He is in equal measure impossible and indispensable. A Marxian expressionist on the edge of metaphysics, he persuades us that Utopia, the prospect of a real and better world that is yet to come, is encoded in our art, literature and popular culture. Here we see life as it ought to be – as a shining and radical alternative to the way in which the world currently is. Ernst Simon Bloch was born on the 8 July 1885 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. 45 From an early age, however, he mused upon the differences between the comfortable, established but undeveloped community (Gemeinschaft) of his own Ludwigshafen, in comparison with the secular, cosmopolitan, modern (Gesellschaft) of neighbouring Manheim.

78 That said, and while Sargisson’s monograph is certainly cognisant of Utopianism’s pitfalls and imperfections, it nevertheless argues for both its continued relevance and importance in the 21st century. 82 Utopias pre-date More, and are articulated in a multitude of forms. Common functions include criticism, engaging in contemporary debates, and imagining alternatives. 83 For Sargisson, Utopia is also elusive. It is ‘the shadow that we chase, the dream that we pursue and yet – and also – it lies always over the horizon, around the corner, over the hill, out of reach and (usually) out of sight.